Markus Schmidt Livres

"Bring your company into the digital era without compromising your core business. In The Digital Transformer's Dilemma: How to Energize Your Core Business While Building Disruptive Products and Services, the authors show companies how to go digital while also advancing their core business. The book emphasizes how to strike a difficult balance between establishing a new (digital) business and re-vitalizing - and digitizing - the legacy business."--www.wiley.com

This is the only book to focus on industrial and environmental applications of synthetic biology, covering 17 of the most promising uses in the areas of biofuel, bioremediation and biomaterials. The contributions are written by experts from academia, non-profit organizations and industry, outlining not only the scientific basics but also the economic, environmental and ethical impact of the new technologies. This makes it not only suitable as supplementary material for students but also the perfect companion for policy makers and funding agencies, if they are to make informed decisions about synthetic biology. Largely coordinated by Markus Schmidt, a policy adviser, and the only European to testify in front of the bioethics commission of the Obama administration.

The issue of divisions has been continuing through the centuries to date; it has broken the community of the people of God and caused separations among Christians. The point of view is that brokenness might be interpreted in a way which discloses it as gate to healing and wholeness. When applying it to the broken people of God, it can be reinterpreted as a developmental step towards unity. The possibility of growth is what gives hope in human life; further, the possibility of growth and the hope it generates apply to Church division because it too is an effect of human brokenness. The distinct value of this book is that it links the particular issue of human brokenness, within a Christian theological framework, with sin, salvation history, and Church division. Thus, it creates a supportive understanding of (salvific) brokenness in terms of theological anthropology and ecclesiology and thereby encourages the inner growth of human beings.

The collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of understanding. Research and science communication company Biofaction has brought together artists and synthetic biologists throughout Europe in a residence program that spans four truly cross-disciplinary collaborations. The contributors to this volume share their reflections of the dynamic frictions that occurred when their artistic and scientific worlds met. These stories, where chemistry labs, tobacco plants, genetically edited bacteria, and new-to-nature enzymes collide with music, photography, film, and visual arts, infuse the ongoing dialogue between art and sciences with grain, noise, and synergies.

Fotograf Markus Schmidt präsentiert rund 160 brillante Aufnahmen, die eindrucksvoll den Verfall längst verlassener Gebäude, Werkshallen und Fabriken zeigen. Die stillen Zeugen der Vergangenheit versprühen einen morbiden Charme, dem sich der Betrachter nicht entziehen kann. Mit viel Liebe zum Detail und einer ganz eigenen Bildsprache dokumentiert Schmidt verborgene Welten, die einst Lebensmittelpunkt Tausender Menschen waren.

Der Fotokünstler Markus Schmidt präsentiert rund 60 brillante Fotografien, die den Niederrhein in seiner ganzen Schönheit zeigen. Die opulenten Aufnahmen eröffnen grandiose Perspektiven und zeigen meisterhaft scheinbar Vertrautes aus außergewöhnlichen Blickwinkeln. Ein stimmungsvolles Porträt der Region und ihrer Städte, brandaktuell und individuell.

Die Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der Europäischen Union in der Bildungspolitik, die überwiegend von den Mitgliedsländern selbst bestimmt wird. Dabei wird die EU als koordinierende und unterstützende Instanz betrachtet, die ergänzende Funktionen übernimmt. Seit den 1960er Jahren hat sich jedoch eine spezifische Bildungspolitik auf europäischer Ebene entwickelt, die seit den späten 1990er Jahren an Dynamik gewonnen hat. Die Studie analysiert die Wechselwirkungen zwischen nationalen und europäischen Bildungspolitiken und beleuchtet deren Entwicklung im Kontext der politischen Integration.